MONDAY, JANUARY 18th, 2021
THREE CHEERS FOR THE THIRD!
Specific dates don't mean as much to some
holidays as they used to. A few have been
altered just a bit to fit our Uniform Monday
Holiday Act!
That's good because it means more long
weekends. But, as we find out, the third Monday
in January as been a holiday for some longer
that most of us knew. Martin Luther King Jr
was born on January 15th., 1929. He became
know world wide for him non violent civil
rights campaign but was assassinated in 1968.
Shorty after his death efforts began to make
his birthday a national holiday. President Reagan
signed a bill to that effect in 1983 and it was first
observed three years later. It wasn't until 2000,
however, that all 50 states recognized the holiday!
It is, as I pointed out, one of those holidays observed
on a Monday whatever the actual date. But, perhaps
ironically. some of the United States had been
observing the third Monday in January as a set date
long before Martin Luther King Jr was ever born!
It was date set aside to honor the birthday of........
Robert E. Lee! Hope you've got the day off and
that all your NEWS is good!
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